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The early 20th century was a golden age for liars, and Charles Fitzgerald was probably their king. At least he’d tell you he was. And you’d believe him! There was no other choice!

I say “probably” because there are some badass verifiable truths in his story, along with a lot of awesome verifiable untruths, and Charles Fitzgerald built himself a Sky Mansion in the spaces in between.

Seanbaby already wrote a whole article on the man too tough to die on Earth, so it took the moon to kill him. But that wasn’t enough Charles Fitzgerald for 1900🌭!

We had to bring author and futurist Jason Pargin on to discuss the best liar any of us ever heard of, and the era he lived in: A better time when you could tell a reporter you invented several new types of airplane and he would publish that fact without asking you a single question about it.

As always, remember to subscribe to the podcast wherever you do that, and leave us a review -- I’m partial to PodPeople these days, I like the way all of their reviews are just screaming and pointing. Do that. Scream and point for us, it’s the only way to help the site!

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Flippant Sausage

On the topic of stump removal ordinance, nowadays you use a more stable binary explosive, like Tannerite. Dynamite is problematic to store and is dangerous all the time. Tannerite is inert until you mix the two components and you can buy it in an uncomfortable amount of places. And, since it needs something to touch it off, you can also blow up a stump while shooting at it with a rifle, for peak America. Technically you can also color it, and make it a gender reveal stump removal.

Jason Pargin

At least one person on that podcast has owned and detonated tannerite with an AR-15, I can't speak for Sean or Brockway though.

hegel5000

So fun fact: according to general relativity, gravity is also a fictitious force, just like centrifugal force. You know it's a fictitious force because you can't feel gravity when you're falling until you hit the ground. Similarly, if you were bean sized and sitting at the top of this guy's growler can and he swung it around on a string, you wouldn't feel the centrifugal until you hit the bottom. (note: the string+can provides the centripetal force which is not fictitious; similarly, the ground also not fictitious)